War on Christmas
gregladen | December 3, 2015No. Lights of the christmas tree interfering with The Force, not likely.
Well, OK, if all the people in the united states gathered into one state, the gravitational effects of all those bodies in one place would be detectable by the ultra sensitive GRACE satellite system. And, any electronic device that is running, including light bulbs or just wires carrying alternating current, put EMF out into the air, and potentially, this energy could interfere with other EMF energy such as what your wifi uses.
Overall if your house is full of electronic devices that are running, including multiple…
gregladen | December 7, 2013Yes, there is a connection ...
The Imperial Japanese of World War II and the Nazi Germans of the same era held one thing in common: You were with them or you were nothing. Non-Japanese prisoners were treated very poorly. The lives of non Japanese who did not swear allegiance to the emperor were not valued at all. For instance, when the Japanese exited Manila near the end of the war, they killed hundreds of thousands of Philippine people. The Nazi's slaughtered millions of Russian prisoners, those they considered "unfit" or otherwise different from them, and of course, attempted to…
stcynic | August 29, 2006I swear, by the time Christmas gets here I'm gonna be on a clock tower with a high powered rifle if this crap keeps up. The Worldnutdaily has this report on Sam's Club and their horribly offensive "holiday" advertising. The American Family Association threw a hissy fit because Sam's Club's in-house magazine had an ad that used the word "holidays" instead of Christmas. They launched a huge campaign against it:
The company's August/September issue included one page of Christmas items, but they were listed as "holiday" items instead, according to the AFA's Randy Sharp, who told WorldNetDaily the…
stcynic | August 26, 2006People complain about the stores putting on Christmas music too early, but now we can complain about the bitching and complaining starting early. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the first idiotic whining about the "war on Christmas" for the year. Naturally, it comes from the American Family Association and is reported by Agape Press. They're upset that Sam's Club's in-house magazine carries a full line of Christmas cards and other items, along with cards and items more appropriate for other holidays at that time, but they call it the "holiday" line:
"Last week the first Christmas ad came out…
stcynic | January 4, 2006It appears that the ACLU has finally seen the handwriting on the wall. Under the withering attack of the crack investigative reporters at the Worldnutdaily and StopTheACLU, they've finally just come out and admitted that they are engaged in a war on Christmas. Indeed, it appears to be worse than anyone thought:
Thanks to FOX News and highly credible voices like StoptheACLU.org, the news is out that ACLU has declared War on Christmas.
It's true. In fact, I have just returned from our War Room where ACLU's brightest minds are spending this final weekend before the holiday plotting to kill…
stcynic | December 24, 2005I and some of my readers have mused at what motivates all of this "War on Christmas" nonsense. I think there are several answers. For the Jerry Falwells, Matthew Stavers and Bill O'Reillys of the world, the answer, I have no doubt, is pure demagoguery - they make money by exploiting these absurd emotional issues and making people angry or scared about them. That's what keeps the donations flowing in, a convenient enemy. Why is it so easily accepted by so many, though? Well there I think there are several things at work.
First, bear in mind that Christianity is a religion that began as a…
stcynic | December 20, 2005Russ Douthat of The Atlantic is guest blogging at Andrew Sullivan's place and has an interesting post about the "War on Christmas". He writes:
the only thing more annoying than the killjoys who want to keep creches off town greens is listening to Bill O'Reilly or John Gibson rant about how it's all part of an insidious plot, cooked up in some secret lair where Barry Lynn, John Shelby Spong and the editorial board of the New York Times gather to guzzle eggnog and plan the destruction of all that is good and holy. To the extent that the real meaning (or the "original intent," if you will) of…
stcynic | December 20, 2005The Houston Chronicle has a terrific editorial on the War on Christmas, cutting right to the chase and calling it what it is - "a marketing ploy as plain as a mall full of Xboxes." Ain't that the truth.
stcynic | December 19, 2005Wow. You just have to see this unbelievable screed in the Worldnutdaily by Erik Rush. He actually says that those who deny the trumped up "War on Christmas" are just like those who deny the holocaust. Seriously, he does. With a straight face, presumably.
There are, as the reader may well know, individuals who believe that the Nazi Holocaust that occurred during World War II - and which led to the deaths of millions of Jews and eastern Europeans - never occurred at all ... the death camps were movie sets, and the newsreel footage was staged by American generals to demonize the defeated Nazis…
stcynic | December 16, 2005I'm not the only one who has been poking holes in this absurd "war on Christmas" meme and I thought I'd point you to some other folks doing the same thing. Robert Parry has an essay at Consortium News that I think nails the fact that the crusade to convince Christians that they are under attack, both in this specific area and in many others, is orchestrated and intentional and part of a larger political strategy:
The success of the American Right in extracting a "war on Christmas" out of a few well-meaning gestures to non-Christians, such as using the greeting "Happy Holidays," is a testament…
stcynic | December 15, 2005This kills me. Reported, naturally, in the Worldnutdaily, the incredibly annoying and painfully unfunny Jackie Mason is joining up with a group called "Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation" and will be riding down 5th Avenue in New York to protest the entirely mythical "War on Christmas". And he'll be surrounded by a delightful cast of wingnuts as well:
Mason is a founding member of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, or JAACD, the organization sponsoring the event. According to a statement from the group, the entertainer will ride in a 15-foot Ford Excursion with banners proclaiming, "…
stcynic | December 15, 2005I'm sure you've all heard by now about that school in Wisconsin that Falwell's legal group threatened with a lawsuit because they allegedly changed the words to "Silent Night" to be "Cold in the Night". Bill O'Reilly has been fuming all over the place about this. Mathew Staver, of the misaptly named Liberty Counsel and part of Falwell's "Friend or Foe" campaign, threatened a lawsuit against them saying
People are outraged. We sent a demand letter asking them to immediately change the song and allow the actual lyrics of "Silent Night," and if they do not, if they insist on this ridiculous…
stcynic | December 14, 2005Media Matters has been doing a thorough job of following Bill O'Reilly's fake "War on Christmas" crusade of demagoguery. At this moment, they've got posts up catching him in no fewer than three lies trying to turn myth into reality. They are:
Lie #1: Saginaw, Michigan tells people not to where red and green clothing:
O'REILLY: In Saginaw, Michigan, the township opposes red and green clothing on anyone. [Laughing] In Saginaw Township, they basically said, anybody, we don't want you to wear red or green. I would dress up head to toe in red to green if I were in Saginaw, Michigan.
False. Saginaw…
stcynic | December 8, 2005Doug Stanhope once did a very funny bit about how people taking a political cause too far can make you go in the other direction just to spite them. He'd say, "It's like the PETA people. I'm sympathetic to their cause, I mean, I would never hurt an animal, that's just messed up. But PETA is so ridiculous about it, throwing blood on anyone who wears fur coats and trying to get lobsters the right to vote that it makes me want to choke a fuzzy bunny in front of them just to piss them off because they're so extreme about it. And now I'm against what I'd be for normally because they're a fucking…
stcynic | November 29, 2005If you want to read something so stupid it will make you shake your head in amazement that anyone would publish it, try this ridiculous cautionary tale from the year 2030, as a man tells his grandson about the good old days when you could buy Christmas wrapping paper and say "Merry Christmas" without being arrested. And it's written by a freaking Rabbi, who laments that Americans didn't "take to the streets" to stop people from saying "Happy Holidays." The fact that it isn't a parody or meant ironically only shows how utterly moronic it is.